"Fortified Manor House" Topic

Just finished this beauty, thinking a good building for Elizabethan Ireland or border Reivers, perhaps slightly early for a lot of our period although I can se it being good for Jacobite games,lots of pictures on the blog link

It's a lovely useful model that you have done a fabulous job with. I have a small barn from H&A which is another nice piece and I was impressed with the quality.

It looks very nice and interesting how you arrived at the colors. Thank you for posting.

Doesn't look like a fortified manor house. More like a simple walled farm.

Well done

Very nice!

Oh that's very nice!

Eric

Thanks very much all for the feedback. MajorB I have no issue with you describing it as a walled farm. A fortified Manor is the manufacturers description, probably because they have a much smaller walled farm which I hope to paint next. I will be taking a bit more time to document the process and the paints used on the next one.

Beautiful!

Thanks Shagnasty

Wow. That is a cool piece of terrain. Nice work.

Lovely job! I love the Hudson and Allen stuff. (I wish there was a UK distributor.)

That's really nice. Particularly like your ochre on the barn – May I ask what brand & colour?

The postage and duties were not quite asbad as expected to be honest. £75.00 GBP dollars after converting to stirling and adding postage and duty was £73.00 GBP so….

I am goign to do a bit of a walk through with the enxt one I do KYPD38 but the base colour for the ochre was chocolate brown, a wet brush of ECW Buff (from Colour Party paints about 2 miles away from me in Bradford UK) which had an orange tintt to it, then a light dry brush over the whole structure with an ivory. I will put the paint numbers from colour party on the next post I do ont he subject.

Yeah I got this and some other buildings from the US, shipped to the UK – buildings cost me £126.00 GBP, shipping £37.00 GBP and customs was £25.00 GBP Total of £188.00 GBP for the farm posted above along with two cottages, one barn and two smaller buildings. Not bad to be honest. The individual Hudson & Allen houses and barns are all about $10 USD-$12, which is pretty damn good I think.

Agreed Charlie, even with postage and duty its pretty good value for some lovely buildings.

Very nice!

Were you tempted, at all, to cut out the windows in the house?

Top notch job!

Thanks guys and wmyers, no, I would go near the windows with a knife, to be honest I prefer them blank.

Roger(and anyone else), I am currently painting the same piece and I have a question. The top of the wall sections has what looks to be something like the thatch that is on top of the roof of the buildings. Is this correct or is it something else? I have never seen thatch on the top of a wall. Just curious.

Ah yes rampant lion, that also made me scratch my head. I have seen the tops of walls finished off with thin sheets of stone or slate laid upright to run water off and I decided to paint mine grey to represnet this, it certainly wouldnt be thatch as you say.

You will see better on some of the close up pictures on my blog.

Quick question about this farm? The roof of the second story. It does not also "lift off" to give you access for that part of the structure -- e.g., for skirmish gaming?

If not, is it hollow? Could you with care (of course!) saw off the roof and add in your own floor? Just thinking out loud.

Beautiful work, BTW!!!! I have been thinking about that set literally for a good ten or twelve years. Never get up the courage to plunge!

That's a super piece!

FWIW Wiki does mention thatch as being used for coping, and slate wasn't used commercially until the early 1800s. Not to detract from your painting though, you've done a fantastic job.

Beautifully painted. That's a lovely model.

Cheers guys, the peice is hollow so with some carful modellign you could erhaps remove the thatch on the barn and put a floor in, the top floor of the house though I dont think is hollow so a much more difficult prospect. In ter ms of the coping perhaps we can think of it is just undressedstone?